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The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vol. 1) [DVD] [2000]
enlarge	Director: Martin Bruestle Actors: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Nancy Marchand, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£13.99~~ Buy New: £6.98 as of 23/11/2009 20:32 GMT details You Save: £7.01 (50%) New (5) Used (3) from £1.95 Seller: offshoredirect Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 19720 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 118 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321900250665 ASIN: B000059RKV Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Release Date: May 21, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review The second series of IThe Sopranos/I, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like IThe West Wing/I, IThe Sopranos/I is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --IDavid Stubbs/I

Customer Reviews: Brilliant May 23, 2001 The first series of the supranos was good! and the second series was even better all of the DVD's and videos are well worth buying!! and I have seen the third series in america and it gets even better!! The Soprano Guide to Cool May 23, 2001 dark_angel_ltd@hotmail.com (Winchester, UK) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful The first series was more of an introduction in to world of Tony Soprano and both his families. Now, following the extreme events at the end of series 1, Tony has to pick the pieces of his criminal empire back up again. Not only does he have the knowledge of the hit organised by his mother, but his children growing up, his wifes lust for romance (but not with him), his psycho girlfriend, his uncle junior let out of prison and the return of his best friend Pussy who is now a changed man. pThis series is even more violent, cool and sexy than the first one and is for any fan of gangster movies

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